I recently enjoyed this Timothy Taylor lecture series for The Great Courses. It’s a survey of world economic conditions since World War II that’s meant to add some depth to your daily scan of the newspaper. Taylor, who has a lot of boyish enthusiasm, keeps things consistently informative and unpretentious, and he has a healthy — an open and uninsistent — attitude towards mainstream academic econ. So: nothing radical, nothing mind-blowing, and the course has one very real drawback, which is that it was recorded in early 2008, before the financial collapse. But it’s very helpful and enjoyable anyway, and it’s currently being offered for a very good price.

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Onetime media flunky and movie buff and very glad to have left that mess behind. Formerly Michael Blowhard of the cultureblog 2Blowhards.com. Now a rootless parasite and bon vivant on a quest to find the perfectly-crafted artisanal cocktail.